Thursday, 18 October 2012

Just a quick post. One of my linocuts ('Pigeons') has been featured in the BBC Handmade Revolution booklet which accompanies the TV series. I wasn't actually in the TV series, but it is nice to featured in the printed document!

Monday, 15 October 2012

So, I've been meaning to update the blog for a while, but time is conspiring against me. I'd better get this post done before something else gets in the way!

New prints

I've done a couple of new prints in the last month or so. They are both available on Folksy and from the fairs/markets that I do, as well as a few galleries that i sell too, too.

Three donkeys (an uncomfortable silence no.2) - the first uncomfortable silence was featured on a plate that I produced last year. I didn't create many, and they all sold, so I felt the urge to create another linocut along the same theme! Three more slightly awkward beasts. It is available only as a hand-pressed linocut.

Sheffield City View No.2 - this is almost a reverse view of the first city view that I created. It shows a view looking at the city from the Pitsmoor/Rutland Road side of town. It is available as a hand-pressed linocut and three poster variations.

Interview!

I'm taking part in the next Art Market in Holmfirth on 3rd/4th November. For they occasion they have interviewed me, and you can hear me waffling on about my work and things I like by clicking on the link.

I've finally got around to producing my new plates! They are entitled Donkey No.1 and Donkey No.2, and I'll be selling them only at fairs/markets and through The Framery in Sheffield. See what you think..

About Me

Brief Biography

I've been producing printed artwork for perhaps the last 15 years. In 2010 I decided to go full-time as an artist, and I'm still at it! I specialise in linocuts and screen-prints.I graduated with a degree in Fine Art in 1995, specialising in photography (for no other reason than I didn't really enjoy painting or sculpture), and then spent the next few years in dead-end jobs and being unemployed, fighting with thousands of other arts graduates for the rare art-related jobs that appeared.Eventually I worked in a few (non art-related) decent jobs, and then discovered print-making. It was a revelation to me. A way of creating art that felt physical and quite a challenge! I'm inspired by the graphic quality of printmaking, and the way you can say a lot with very little. Artist-wise I'm inspired by people like Goya, Stanley Spencer, Max Beckmann and Egon Schiele. All quite direct artists. More contemporary people I like are the artist/graphic novelist Chris Ware, Kid Acne, illustrator Jonathan Wilkinson and cartoonist/writer Elodie Ginsbourg.So I've been doing it ever since, and now spend all my time working on it (aside from the time spent being a musician - my other passion).I've had a little success along the way being shortlisted in 2006 for the International Small Print Competition for my work 'Paris Buggy' and taking part in the 'Portrait Artist Of The Year' and 'Landscape Artist Of The Year' TV shows in 2013/2015 (reaching the semi-final in the latter). I've also produced commissions for people like Paul Smith Menswear,The Hepworth Wakefield, Sheffield Children's Festival, The Folk Forest music festival and Domino Records. I sell my work via my Folksy shop, my NOTHS shop, to various shops and galleries around the UK, and also at various Art/Craft Markets.I also have a facebook page too. Please come along and become a fan if you like my stuff!